Bromheadia brevifolia Ridl. 1897 SECTION Aporodes
Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Rernz Herbaria Website.
Photo by © the Orchids of Malaya Website
Photo by © Azhar Nazar Khan
Common Name The Short-Leaved Bromheadia
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in lower montane forests on tree branches at elevations around 600 to 1600 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a compressed stem with .16" [4 mm] between each laterally compressed, imbricating, stiff, straight, elliptic not very acute leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a branched or not, to 1/2" [1.1 cm] long, successively 1 to 12 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing hmm; Orchids of Malaya Segerback 1992 photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Monographs Vol 8 Bromheadia Scheidelen & de Vogel 1997 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman Wood etal 2001; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 8 2011; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fideThe Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide
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